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Indian premier pushes for faster economic reforms
Nov 8, 2009, 8:24 GMT
New Delhi - India had weathered the global economic crisis better than most countries and would push financial sector and other reforms to regain a 9 per cent rate of growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday. ... more
Myanmar expects to export 1 million tons of rice this fiscal year
Nov 8, 2009, 8:16 GMT
Yangon - Myanmar exported 670,000 tons of rice in the fiscal year that ended March 31 despite the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis and expected to export up to 1 million tons this fiscal year, media reports said Sunday. ... more
Indonesian maids outnumber Filipinos in Hong Kong for first time
Nov 8, 2009, 4:10 GMT
Hong Kong - Filipino maids in Hong Kong are outnumbered for the first time by domestic helpers from Indonesia, according to government figures published Sunday. ... more
G20 agrees to bolster recovery; no climate change decision (Roundup)
Nov 7, 2009, 17:12 GMT
St Andrews, Scotland - Finance ministers from the world's 20 leading economies agreed Saturday to bolster the global recovery with stimulus measures, but stopped short of forging new climate change financing plans. ... more
Brown proposes financial market tax at G20 meeting (2nd Lead)
Nov 7, 2009, 13:54 GMT
St Andrews, Scotland - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged finance ministers from the world's 20 leading economies meeting Saturday to consider imposing a tax on financial transactions to help head off future global economic crises. ... more
More Headlines
- Economic recovery, climate change tops G20 meeting (1st Lead)
- Head of GM Europe may switch to India's Tata: media reports
- Economic recovery, climate change tops G20 meeting
- China starts gas pipeline project in western Myanmar
- Five more US bank failures bring total for 2009 to 120
Analysis and Features
Features
Fear and loathing in the workshops as GM keeps Opel (News Feature)
Nov 5, 2009, 15:28 GMT
Berlin - From the point of view of the German autoworker, the devil you know isn't necessarily better than the devil you don't. ... more
Belarus government officials see fast money - in snails (Feature)
Oct 26, 2009, 2:08 GMT
Minsk - Belarus' government is hoping for quick profits, and a boost to rural incomes, from massive colonies of snails crawling around free in the wild, government officials said. ... more
- Frustration marks stalled global trade negotiations (News Feature)
- Thai tableware maker upbeat on ASEAN free trade agreement (Feature)
- Crisis adds to pain and gain of ASEAN free trade pact (Feature)
- Hasta la Vista to Microsoft Vista as Windows 7 launches (Feature)
- Year after launch, Google's phone ambitions ring true (News Feature)
